Electrical conductor



(No Model.)

S. D. STROHM.

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR.

No. 277,374. Patented May 8,1883.

INVENTOR 8M1 kfim ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL D. STROHM, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part-0f Letters Patent No. 277,374, dated May 8,1883. I Application filed November 25, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL D. STRoHM, ofPhiladelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ElectricalConductors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in electric conductors, theobject being to provide supports for telegraph, telephone, or otherelectric wires, said supports to be constructed in such a manner thatthe wires may be readily attached thereto and be prevented fromaccidental displacement.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain features inconstruction and combinations of parts, as will hereinafter bedescribed, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of. a ring-supportembodying my invention. Fig. 2 shows two such rings arranged forsupporting one or more series of wires. Fig. 3 shows another form ofdisk or ring or support embodying myinvention.

A represents a ringmade of metal or any flexible or non-conductingmaterial. It is provided with any desired number of holes, B. The outeredge of thering is slitted to correspond with the number of holes Bformed therein-that is to say, each one of the holes B has a slit, 0,leading to the peripheryofthe ring. By this construction the wires areforced through the slit 0 into the holes B, and when once in their seatsthe metal or other material of which the ring is composed springs backto their supporting-rings, and whenever any one or more of the wiresneed to be separated from the rest to have a branch wire attachedthereto the main wire may be quickly detached from its supporting-ringwithout'disturbing the remaining wires of the series. One or more seriesof wires may be supported by rings of different sizes, as represented inFig. 2. Instead of forming the slits in the outer periphery of the ringsor disks, they may be formed in the inside, as shown in Fig. 3.

Instead of employing rings each having but a single series of holes forthe wires, they may be provided with two or more concentric rows ofholes and slits leading to the outer or inner periphery of the ring, andeach hole may have a separate slit leading thereto; or two or more holesmay connect with a single slit.

The series of wires supported in the manner described may be used as acable, and may or may not be inclosed in a tube or pipe.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is I The combination, with a series of wires,of supporting rings or disks each provided with a series of holes havingnarrow slits leading thereto from the periphery of the disk or ring,said slits being of less width than the diameter of the wires, thesidewalls of said slits or passages being made of elastic material forSAMUEL 1). srnoHM.

Witnesses HENRY O. WARNIOK, WM. P. BEoKER.

